ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,196, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Electric work vehicle" was invented by Takumi Yamamoto (Sakai, Japan), Masahiro Yamada (Sakai, Japan) and Hirokazu Ito (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric work vehicle includes a body 3 configured to travel; a first battery 20 accommodated in the body 3; a three-point link mechanism T connected to a rear section of the body 3 in such a manner as to be swingable up and down; a drive device configured to drive the three-point link mechanism T to swing; and a second battery 60 detachably attached to the three-point link mechanism T. The second bat...